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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Starting to do a 🗓️ monthly retrospective in public. Should be a fun experiment.

Here's how my Jan 2022 went and what I'm looking forward to doing in Feb.
Earlier I did a retrospective on how my 2021 went: invertedpassion.com/how-my-2021-we…

I got a ton of value from pausing and seeing where did my time go.
Hopefully, the increased frequency (from yearly to monthly) will help in becoming more intentional about life and doing it in public will help in accountability.
If you're doing retrospectives, I'd love to hear.

How did your Jan 2022 go?

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Feb 7
Your 30 second pitch shouldn’t be about you.

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1/ Entrepreneurs generally confuse their 30 second pitch as something that needs to be about what they’re doing.

This interpretation is understandable because usually anyone they meet ends up asking them what they do and the entrepreneur faithfully launches into her pitch.
2/ Unfortunately, such a pitch often ends up with the listener quickly losing interest.

This is because even though people ask what you do with good intentions, they usually do not actually deeply care about what you do.
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Jan 31
Recently finished "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through The Brain in 2.1 Seconds" by @markdhumphries

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1/ As the book's subtitle suggests, it's about the neural code our brain uses for doing what it does.

The book is rich with details and I learned a lot of new facts and ideas about the brain. I highly recommend the book to anyone who has an interest in neuroscience.
2/ Since writing about an object as complex as the brain can fill encyclopedias, I will focus my notes on what I know now that I didn't know before reading the book.
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Jan 27
Do 👽 aliens exist?

@robinhanson has developed a mathematical model called "Grabby Aliens" that not just predicts that they exist also suggests that they're rapidly expanding in the universe.

Listen to my interview with him on this:
1/ For a short intro on the model, here's a great explainer:

You can read the paper detailing the model here: grabbyaliens.com
2/ In our hour-long conversation, we touch on a lot of topics:

- Fermi's Paradox
- SETI
- The Great Filter
- UFOs

What @robinhanson says is both provocative and hard to refute!
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Jan 24
Consumers want stuff for free, companies want to pay.

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1/ Mark Zuckerberg famously said that there’s no point in monetizing a consumer product unless you have a billion users.

Consumers are habituated to getting digital services for free.

This makes monetization for consumer products very tricky.
2/ Try recalling all the digital products or services you pay for as a consumer.

In all likelihood, there won’t be too many as increasingly music, news, movies, productivity apps, and games are all free.
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Jan 17
It’s winners-take-all in B2C, while B2B is a long tail.

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1/ There are only a few dominant social networks because consumer markets are prone to winner-take-all effects.
2/ There are multiple reasons for this.

First, consumers want stuff for free or cheap which drives consumer companies to expand aggressively so that they can amortize their fixed costs over many such users.
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Jan 13
🎉 Announcing December winners of Gaur and Chopra Escape Velocity grants.

We're awarding 6 people under 25 years of age, a sum of Rs 50,000 each.
1/ Sanjana is from Sikkim and she wants to use the grant money to create a mentorship network for students from rural areas in north-east.

She will connect people from north east with well-established careers to these kids, hopefully uplifting the region.
2/ Abing is from a rural area in Arunachal Pradesh and has launched a podcast using his mobile phone only.

anchor.fm/abing-lamnio

With this grant, Abing will purchase equipment to be able to record his podcasts professionally.
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